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To: jec41

I meant to include this in the previous post as a topic of interest. It is in Acts 17. The apostle Paul uses Greek beliefs to teach Christianity.


In Athens
16While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was greatly distressed to see that the city was full of idols. 17So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the God-fearing Greeks, as well as in the marketplace day by day with those who happened to be there. 18A group of Epicurean and Stoic philosophers began to dispute with him. Some of them asked, "What is this babbler trying to say?" Others remarked, "He seems to be advocating foreign gods." They said this because Paul was preaching the good news about Jesus and the resurrection. 19Then they took him and brought him to a meeting of the Areopagus, where they said to him, "May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting? 20You are bringing some strange ideas to our ears, and we want to know what they mean." 21(All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing but talking about and listening to the latest ideas.)
22Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: "Men of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. 23For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Now what you worship as something unknown I am going to proclaim to you.

24"The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. 25And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. 26From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. 27God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. 28'For in him we live and move and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'We are his offspring.'


214 posted on 04/20/2006 9:43:02 AM PDT by Conservative Texan Mom (Some people say I'm stubborn, when it's usually just that I'm right.)
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To: Conservative Texan Mom
Genesis 6;1,2 And it came to pass when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born unto them. That the sons of God saw the daughters of men and they were fair and they took them wives of all which they chose.

A practice of Greek Gods although in my older Bibles the word wife is not used. But I would ask were the Gods dark and preferred those fair.

One can find many references of Hades in the Bible. He was the brother of Zeus and lord of the under world. He was not death but the keeper of the dead. Death was Thanatos and in Revelations you will find Hades and Death riding together on two different horses. Many interpret that as a future of destruction. Others see it merely as explanations of their functions

215 posted on 04/20/2006 10:39:02 AM PDT by jec41 (Screaming Eagle)
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